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Definition of Sodium salicylate

1. Noun. A crystalline salt used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Medical Definition of Sodium salicylate

1. A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent that is less effective than equal doses of aspirin in relieving pain and reducing fever. However, individuals who are hypersensitive to aspirin may tolerate sodium salicylate. In general, this salicylate produces the same adverse reactions as aspirin, but there is less occult gastrointestinal bleeding. Pharmacological action: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents, cyclooxygenase inhibitors. Chemical name: Benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, monosodium salt (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodium Salicylate

Literary usage of Sodium salicylate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The chief advantage claimed for strontium salicylate as compared with sodium salicylate is that the strontium salt gives rise to fewer unpleasant by-effects ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"However, solutions of sodium salicylate in from 10 to 20 per cent strength have been given clinically by the subcutaneous method. To obtain any results, ..."

3. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"sodium salicylate occurs as a white, micro-crystalline powder, < as an amorphous powder; colorless or having not more than & fai odorless, or having a faint ..."

4. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"The toxic effect of salicylic acid or of sodium salicylate, for in this article we ... In one of our patients the administration of sodium salicylate caused ..."

5. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge, Charles Alexander Keane, E. Adam, P. Aulich, T. L. Bailey, C. O. Bannister (1914)
"Caffeine is considerably more soluble in water in the presence of various salts such as sodium benzoate, sodium salicylate, and sodium cinnamate, ..."

6. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"100 parts of sodium salicylate =» 85.6 parts of salicylic acid = 100 of sodium salicylate; 100 parts of methyl salicylate = 00.7 parts of salicylic acid ..."

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